Monitoring a qualitative stability of drugs circulating in the market
- Author:
Ha Thi Song Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
drug quality
- MeSH:
Pharmaceutical Preparations;
Drug Stability;
Marketing
- From:Pharmaceutical Journal
2001;298(2):6-8
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The research was done to monitor the stability of quality, which are currently distributed in the market. The sample size is of 136 drugs with expiry date, which are selected from retail pharmacies in Hanoi. These 136 drugs represent both domestic-made and imported products, different kinds of pharmaceutics and various groups of pharmacology. Results show that 11.0% of 136 studied pharmaceuticals do not meet the technical specifications. Among this, 7.4% fail to meet standards on quantitative assay. The rate of domestic made pharmaceuticals under its quantitative assay is twice higher than imported ones. Vitamin and traditional products are of the two drug groups having low stability. Almost drugs currently sold in the market have long expiry. However, there remains a considerable ratio of pharmaceuticals drugs under the quality standards.
